Around $100 or less dacs

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yeah that measurement isn’t accurate enough.
In metric I would need to get at least down to 1mm. Accurate to 200 micrometers would be nice though.
So about 0.04-0.05 of an inch or so on the high side.

If the measurements aren’t at least that accurate there will be some size difference and I would have to continually have to alter it until it was right.

If that ruler can do 1/32 inch then it will probably be fine. 1/16th of an inch is getting a bit rough. But doable.

If you have a flat bed scanner you could scan the top of the Atom. If it is scanned as a set page size that is commonly known I can probably do the top side measurements.

Measuring curved corners is pretty straight forward. Usually you would figure out where the the curve starts. Measure from there until the center point of the curve. To do that the easiest way is with two straight objects like two rulers from either side. where the two meet is the center point.
That works best if the curve is a fillet aka a rounded corner.

This is essentially how you measure that.
Fillet

If the curve is not a fillet, then it becomes a pain in the ass because you need to do a lot of measuring as various points along the curve to extrapolate the non circular curve.

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I bought a aluminium case for my Khadas Tone Board from here:
https://www.audiophonics.fr/en/aluminium-boxes-cases/aluminum-case-for-khadas-tone-board-p-13626.html

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I was planning on getting this but shipped to home was over $43. Just not worth it to me, but I can see why others would choose it.

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Don’t know if this is useful. It’s set to 8.5 x 11 in. Click on it to get it to go to original size. I can send you the file if you’d like too.

Also the ruler is blue, not pink. So that may affect your measurements.

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that should be fine. Thank god it has centimeters and millimeters on it.

Lol. I think blue is fine

Got some other work to do this weekend. So I’ll post something in a few days and someone can give it a try.

And remember, only you can stop forest fires.

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@FBizzle

Frank, weren’t you also working on some sort of enclosure for the Tone Board? More the merrier, for sure!

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Yeah I had a design that was basically a shrunken massdrop version that was floating out there.

I didn’t get a chance to print it out as I had to move my printer and I had no interest in leveling it again and getting print ready.

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There’s no official thread for a lot of these DACs. I think I only see the Topping D10.

Should have one for the SMSL M100 too, at least, because Zeos really liked it:

And the Khadas Tone Board:

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Done

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Also not mentioned here I think, the Behringer UCA202 is… 100dB+ SNR for like 30$?!
(Not the UCA222 though, the UCA222 is worse than motherboard sound for whatever reason.)

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I’ve heard it and it’s pretty decent. I don’t think it really its as good of the topping d10, but it is pretty good

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Literally forgot I had one… plugging it into my Atom right now. :no_mouth:

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You know you’re an audiophile when…

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Man this thing sounds clean. I was about to maybe buy a SMSL M100 but… Would it even sound better in a blind test?

The UCA202 only does 48khz though.

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Honestly I would just hold off and wait tbh. I think a proper upgrade might be a su8 or d50s if you wanted a significant upgrade

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Well, fuck me. TIL the cleanest DAC I had for years was a 30$ DAC I had left in my box of things to sell. Lol.

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Loo, well now you know lol. Is it cleaner than what you were using up until you remembered that you had it?

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Everything is cleaner than double-amping an AVR. :stuck_out_tongue:
(I bought the Atom for my studio, not for here. – The recording interface will be its home.)

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What about the Xduoo XD-05?
Probably not as clean as D50S / SU-8?

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The xd-05 is good, but I mean that’s more of a portable combo and not really dac focused, but it does preform well as a dac through it’s line out. I do think that an ifi idsd nano bl would be good to use as a dac if you wanted something a bit warmer and smooth